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To: Residents, Workers and Visitors of District 8, San Francisco, CA
REPEAL THE VOTE - DEESTABLISH UPPER MARKET/CASTRO CBD (Community Benefit District)
REPEAL THE VOTE! NOW IS THE TIME!
Now is the time to critically REVIEW the Upper Market/Castro Community Benefit District's executive management, history with local nonprofits, expenses and obligations to spend tax dollars, its policies and its practices around our public realm and streetscape management.
This is the time to say NO to another NO-BID 15-YEAR CONTRACT. End the access to INCREASED local tax dollars and MORE City grants for services that our CITY PARTNERS should already be providing by Public Works, Rec & Park, SFPD. Instead, we have an elite group of paid leadership that dictates why we have LESS when we should have MORE after 15 years of decline. FIRE the CASTRO CBD, once and for all.
The QUALITY OF LIFE has decreased since the organization was formed 15 years ago. Higher crime, emptier buildings, less business, less legacies... and this was the CBD's prime function: CLEANER, SAFER, VIBRANT STREETS, of which it has failed miserably... and now in Covid-era!?!?
Why is this important?
Essentially, this is TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.
AND WE HAVE 30 DAYS TO REPEAL THE VOTE!!!!
The recent VOTE at City Hall was a shoe-in for the Castro CBD, basically because it is a vote WEIGHTED-IN-ITS-FAVOR. SF City and County properties, like schools, rec&park, parking lots are guaranteed YES's. If the CBD could persuade just a few large anchor tenants, such as Safeway, Wholefoods, or the Apothecarium, the election is done. The CBD does not need any input from the community. This is taxation without representation.
San Francisco was named the “Worst Run Big City in the U.S.” by SF Weekly a decade ago and it could still hold the title. Now, a federal investigation has targeted multiple city departments, including Public Works' TOP Director "Mr. Clean" with numerous arrests and subpoenas to "City Family" non-profits, including SF Parks Alliance, of fraud and malfeasance. Our neighborhood has suffered greatly under the mismanagement by City Hall and "Mrs. Clean" has been lock step in the urban, natural and transit degradation.
Residents are fed up! Will City Hall ever get the basics right? — clean streets, less crime and better services. We just hired a NO BID out of county specialty contractor, and subcontractors, for BASIC services that Public Works, Recreation and Parks, SFPD should already be providing. Good bye, Mr. & Mrs. Clean!
Please sign this petition, as it will be presented to the Judge as part of the Elections Committee hearing. Thank you, Concerned Neighbor, District 8, John Goldsmith
How it will be delivered
The signatures will be delivered and cc'd to:
Dennis Herrerra, SF City Attorney
Carmen Chu, Tax Assessor
London Breed, Mayor
Rafael Mandelman, District 8 Supervisor